Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

One-shot preparation of topologically chimeric nanofibers via a gradient supramolecular copolymerization

  • Yuichi Kitamoto,
  • Ziyan Pan,
  • Deepak D. Prabhu,
  • Atsushi Isobe,
  • Tomonori Ohba,
  • Nobutaka Shimizu,
  • Hideaki Takagi,
  • Rie Haruki,
  • Shin-ichi Adachi,
  • Shiki Yagai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12654-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Supramolecular polymers can form highly accessible polymeric nanomaterials. Here the authors report the facile preparation of supramolecular copolymers involving segregated secondary structures by cooling non-polar solutions containing two monomers that individually afford helically folded and linearly extended secondary structures.